Lack of staff, the British Department of Political Affairs lost 312 passports from January to October last year

[Global Times Comprehensive Report] The "pot" of the lost passport will be carried by the government this time.According to the British "Daily Mail" reported on the 7th, from January to October 2021, a total of 312 passports were "lost" by the British Ministry of Political Affairs, and the number was almost three times that of 2020.

The reduction of the staff of the passport office is an important reason for the loss of passport.It is reported that the employees in the passport office dropped from 4376 in 2015 to 3,704 in 2021.The British Liberal Democratic member Villa Herberz criticized: "The passport office is in chaos, and the British public suffers from incompetence because of the government." As of the end of June 2022, the staff of the British Passport Office had increased to 5043.A spokesman for the British Ministry of the Interior said, "We will do our best to retrieve the lost or wrong passports and formulate measures with partners to reduce the number of overall losses."For a few months, 10%of them have been waiting for.

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